Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other adventurers. News papers reported his preparations at the end of last year for this African hunt; they reported his coming out of the rough in the early part of March ; they reported as merrily as they dared his escape (in pajamas, full dress trousers and slippers) from a train burning between Luxor and Cairo, Egypt. Correspondents cabled of his departure from Cairo and of his arrival at Naples at the end of March. They met him at Rome and, in the city where Pope Gregory XIII promulgated the present Gregorian calendar, heard him again urge adoption...
Going to help his brother, John W. Cox, 21, Harvard student, insisted upon riding in the club car of a Boston-to-New York train, although he lacked money for the Pullman fare. The conductor tried to oust him. John W. Cox protested and, according to the conductor, became abusive. John W. Cox was removed from the train and jailed overnight in Pelham...
This morning, when Harvard athletes of four different sports are filling in the bottom layer of three score suitcases, when the cast of "Not Now--Later" is divided in attention between last classes and packing Puritan costumes, when all the undergraduate world seems to have a train schedule in its hand, there are eight Sophomores who will have none of this. They will steady themselves on the deck of the battleship Utah as she bucks the tides of the island-dotted lower harbor of Boston. The Utah is bound for the trial courses off the Maine coast; as members...
Three months ago Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flew from the U. S. to Mexico as Ambassador of Goodwill. On an exchange visit, and by the suggestion of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, the Mexican Tipica Orchestra* came by the more sedate train route to the U. S. Last week Manhattan gave it official welcome on the steps of City Hall, listened to its playing, presented on behalf of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce a gold medal labeled "Music-the universal language...
...perhaps significant of the changed attitude of undergraduate Harvard that while the proposed dining hall, the War Memorial Chapel, and football has left the student body cold, an anonymous note at an hour examination has served to set the spark for a train of letters that show in some cases considerable thought...